New Populations of Deep-Sea Corals Discovered Near Scotland

8/4/2014 8:41AM

New populations of deep-sea corals have been discovered on the largest of the U.K.’s underwater mountains. A robotic submarine tethered to a ship on the surface captured footage more than a kilometer deep in the Atlantic ocean. WSJ's Niki Blasina reports. (Photo: Heriot-Watt University)

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... you know populations have deep sea corals have been discovered on the largest BNP is underwater mountains ... a robotic submarine tethered to a shift on the surface captured footage more than a kilometer deep in the Atlantic Ocean ... professor J Murray Robertson period Watt University in Scotland said there are at least one hundred and nine ... different species living on the mountains ... which are also known as the math ... researchers were surprised to find the corals growing assets that ... where sea water is naturally more gross than ... Mr. Roberts is researching cold water coral systems to work out how to manage and conserve them in the long term ... as rising sea acidity could cause sees deep sea coral reefs to dissolve away ...